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October 2024

Horror Is a Color in Our Rainbow
A Halloween Poem About Horror as Part of Our Nature
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Nicholas Gordon
Death Came to Me While I Was at a Meeting
An Epitaph for a Social Activist
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Nicholas Gordon
The Right to Live as Distinct Peoples
Adapted from The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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Nicholas Gordon
Yes, There Is a Lot One Need Atone for
A Poem for Yom Kippur About the Need to Atone for What You Failed to Do as Much as for What You Did.
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Nicholas Gordon

September 2024

Remorse Is Not a Synonym for Shame
A Poem for Rosh Hashanah Comparing Remorse to Shame
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Nicholas Gordon
Sing for All the Years You Have Been Granted
A 70th Birthday Poem of Celebration for the Gifts of Life
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Nicholas Gordon
The Night My Heart Stopped
A Poem About a Moment of Silent Communication Between the Poet and a Racoon
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Nicholas Gordon
Happy Fifteenth Anniversary
A 15th Anniversary Poem Comparing Marriage to Two Trees Planted Close Together
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Nicholas Gordon
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Labor's a Commodity, like Fish
A Labor Day Poem About the Evil of Treating Labor like Any Other Commodity
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Nicholas Gordon
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